Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/70



Omme maken / whiche haue no myghte / ¶ Wherof Eope reherceth uche a fable / ¶ Of a carter / whiche ladde a Charyot or carte / whiche a Mule drewe forthe / And by caue the Mule wente not fat ynough / the flye ayd to the Mule / Ha a Mule / why goot thow not fater / I halle oo egrely pryke the / that I halle make the go lyghtely / ¶ And the Mule anwered to the flye / God kepe and preerue the for the wolues / For I haue ne grete drede ne fere of the / But I drede and doubte ore my mayter / whiche is vpon me / whiche contrayneth me to fulfylle his wylle / ¶ And more I oughte to drede and doubte hym more / than the / whiche arte nought / and of no valewe ne myght / ¶ And thus men ought not to gette by ne them / whiche haue no myght ne that ben of no valewe